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... turns back to retrace his steps and collect the car. Meanwhile, Mike and I continue through the village. The signpost appears to be leading us up a private driveway but the guidebook also indicates that this is the correct route so we carry on. Soon, we find another sign which takes up to the church then back on to the main road again. It's a short but scenic detour. Now we climb the hill out of Whitchurch and join a bridle path which takes us back towards ...

Today I went to Legoland to see all of the lego creations and to go on all the theme park rides. The first thing we did was look at the Star Wars set where there were life size Models of all of the characters and they had mini set ups of all the scenes. Next we went to the lego pirates which was mainly theme park rides and I went on all of them, then we went to the lego city sets and I got to drive a lego boat around a circuit, it was fun. After ...

I got up really early. Not like, really early... but early for a slothful individual like myself, also known as 6.30am, and only because I thought it was 7.30am, and there was a long car ride leaving at 8am. Getting up early was the least good part of the day, because the rest of it was FANTASTIC.

We started for Alton Towers at 8.30am. Henry got out of bed at 7.55am so we were never going to leave on time. That boy sleeps ...

... with Diane who took the train back into London and we to our car. It was a slightly painful drive to our lodgings, but by 4:15 we were finally in our room. Ah, yes, the way to our room was a maze of stairs and doors, very funny. But the room is nice with nice beds and clean sheets. We went on a walk to the train station just to make sure we knew the way and of how long it took us.

... can just about reach the light to take off the cover and then reach in and take off the glass cover over the bulb and then pull out the bulb. This is all by feel. As this particular light series has a switch on either side of the room, we couldn't tell if it was on or off. We thought off. Blast but we were wrong after I got a second small shock. So hubby fixed that problem by just flipping the breaker. ...